Another week, other billionaires with rocket companies go into space.
Last week, Richard Branson got his astronaut wing driving a spacecraft from Virgin Galactic, a company he was founded 14 years ago, to a height of more than 50 miles above the sky of New Mexico.
On Tuesday, it would be Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the universe, who would tie the capsule built by his rocket company, blue origin, and blow up even higher, to more than 62 miles above the West Texas.
When is the launch and how can I watch it? Blue as long as aims to take off takes off at 9 am.
East Time Tuesday.
The company will start the coverage of launch at 7:30 a.m.
On the YouTube channel.
The date coincides with the 52nd anniversary of Moon Apollo’s landing 11.
What is the new Shepard rocket and what will he do? The new Shepard, a blue spacecraft, was named Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
It consists of booster and capsules above, where passengers will be.
Unlike Virgin Galactic spacecraft, Shepard is more a traditional rocket, taking off vertically.
After the booster uses its propellant – liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen – the capsule releases from the booster.
Both parts continue to the beach up, above the 62 mile limit is often considered the beginning of space.
As long as part of this track, the passengers will open and float around the capsules, experiencing about four minutes of free fall and see the landscape of the earth and the darkness of the room from the large capsule window.
The first and vertical leads booster, similar to the touchdown of the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket.
The capsule landed minutes after the booster, down under parachute and soft by the shooting of the last air jet.
All flights must last around 10 minutes.
Is the new Shepard safe? The origin blue has launched a new Shepard 15 times – all without anyone on the board – and the capsule lands safely at any time.
(At the first launch, the booster was jammed; on the 14 launched next, Booster landed intactly driving.
The solid fuel rocket at the bottom of the crew capsule was fired for 1.8 seconds, mobilizing 70,000 pounds of strength to quickly separate the capsules and direct them out of the way booster.
The parachute was deployed, and the capsules landed gently.
Not only the capsule survives, the booster is able to properly, continue into space, and then, firing the engine again, landing a few miles north of Launchpad in West Texas, a little charred but whole.
Who else is getting rid of The plane? Bezos brought his sister.
Mark Bezos, 50, has lived a more personal life.
He is a Co-Founder and General Partner at the Highpost Capital, a private equity company.
Mark Bezos previously worked as head of communication at the Robin Hood Foundation, a charity which helps anti-poverty efforts in New York City.
Blue from auctioned one of the seats, with the results of the club for the future, Charity focused on the room founded by Bezos.
The winning bidder paid $ 28 million – and we still don’t know who it is.
Last week, the company announced that the auction winner had decided to wait until the next flight “due to conflict scheduling.” Instead, Oliver Daemen, a 18-year-old student from the Netherlands who is one runner-up in auction, and who has bought tickets on the second new Shepard flight, hit.
The fourth passenger is Mary Wallace Funk – he left with Wally – a pilot who in the 1960s was among a group of women who passed the same strict criteria as those used to choose astronauts.